Nobody complained about the region locking on the 360.

To date there is only 'one' major console to ever be released without region locking. You mean on top of the fact that almost all consoles in existence have been region locked? Its making a big deal about nothing. Though let me go before I get hammered with bubbles down for providing a reasonable argument that is 'not' bashing Nintendo. I doubt 99% of them have either, much less will. I've never imported a controller or console. Show me a person who actually likes Nintendo that is bothered by this news? They'll all be to busy playing games. They talk about Nintendo customers(which they are not) and their wants when they have no idea what Nintendo customers want and don't want. This it is nothing more than another excuse to bash Nintendo. The only people who care about this news are the ones who were already against the Wii U and had no plains of ever buying one anyway. This could only ever effect someone who traveled to a foreign country with just their gamepad, and who in their right mind would just bring his controller and not his console with it when their is no situation where they could use it anyway? There are no games that use two Wii U Gamepad yet, and anybody who had one in a foreign country would have a gamepad. No taking one to a friends house or trading them out between rooms in the house. So in my case, if i had the black one AND white one i would just have to use them on their respected consoles. That can all change with an update and will likely change if and when there are games/features requiring a 2nd pad.

So in any case, what this means is that FOR RIGHT NOW there is no way to sync another gamepad to the wii-u regardless of region. Same can be said about tv remotes if you have the same tv in the house or more specifically.the same room (but who would). Like having two RC cars that are on the same frequency and you find one controller is controlling both when you dont want it to. THUS preventing any cross talk if you have more than one wii-u in the house. I hadnt heard anything about there being a sync option for the gamepad so i 'assumed' there would not be a NEED to have to sync it with any other wii-u than the one it comes with. I know that controllers like the wiimote and 360 and ps3 all have a sync option that lets them work on other systems. someone has a wii-u and they try to use another gamepad that is from another region? or simply another wii-u? Let me see if i understand this (dont go ripping my head off now).

Wii u gamepad mods